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I looked at the casts and saw Alessandra Ferri in Woolf Works but not Misty Copeland in any role. Carlos Gonzalez is dancing the lead in Like Water for Chocolate, but no lead roles for Jake Roxander or Jarod Curley. Maybe next season! I'm excited about the Chloe Misseldine/Aran Bell Swan Lake.
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I think the Met Opera gives free tickets to certain doctors for this reason. I’m surprised that ABT doesn’t have a similar policy.
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Absolutely astonishing. I completely forgot about Camargo when Roxander was on stage.
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Megan Fairchild acknowledged on Instagram that last night’s T&V was not her best. I did wonder about Huxley’s abbreviated double tour/pirouettes, but nevertheless I was enchanted by their performances. Perhaps because their “problems” brought a human dimension to such grand choreography. I also struggle with Orpheus for the reasons articulated by California. Towards the end I was wishing for Gluck’s score instead of Stravinsky. Serenade is a classic though not one of my personal favorites. I enjoyed it but can’t really bring anything new to the conversation.
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Yes. “ABT Crew is represented by IATSE.” https://www.abt.org/the-company/staff/
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Did Nina invent the rippling arms in the Act 2 exit? Or did someone else do it before her?
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And Nina’s farewell remains my benchmark Odette/Odile.
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Hurlin got an amazing review from NY Times for her Swan Lake debut last year.
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Macaulay made a comment on IG describing Boylston’s Odile in terms of “Soviet kitsch distortions and textual alternations.” I’m wondering if anyone can explain what he means?
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Agreed. Boylston did not move me as Odette, but her Odile was truly exciting. Camargo - what can I say. It was such a privilege to see him as Siegfried.
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Truly beautiful R&J last night - Murphy’s Juliet was more restrained and thoughtful than most, but had such depth and nuance in the second half of the ballet. Forster’s Romeo - what can I add to the beautiful observations of fondoffouettes - he embodied the role and was born to dance it, with his ardor, supremely elegant line, and gracious partnering. The tomb scene was overwhelming and I’ll never forget it.
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Did anyone see last night's program with Hee Seo and Daniel Carmago?
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Catazaro Declines NYCB Reinstatement; Ramasar to Rejoin
Rick replied to mille-feuille's topic in New York City Ballet
Amar will play Bernardo in the upcoming Broadway revival of West Side Story, scheduled to begin previews in December 2019. I think this means he won't be in NYCB's winter and spring seasons? The new Ivo van Hove production will also replace Jerome Robbins's choreography with that of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. 'West Side Story' Broadway Revival Cast Unveiled -
Curious that no one has posted about Prodigal Son on Wednesday night with Joaquin de Luz and Maria Kowroski. It was so amazing. I didn't think that the partnering would work due to the difference in their height but Joaquin seemed so young, vulnerable, and powerless against Maria's femme fatale siren. I'll definitely be there on Sunday for joaquin's farewell.
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Hungarian National Ballet tour to NY, Oct/Nov 2018
Rick replied to CharlieH's topic in Other European Companies
I plan to see Swan Lake. FWIW the Wagner Society of New York has a promo code on their Facebook page. -
http://slippedisc.com/2018/09/new-york-times-loses-its-best-critic/
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From a review of Farrell's autobiography: It was true that she (Farrell) didn’t have to sleep with Balanchine to be cast in his ballets, but that didn’t mean that the person she chose to sleep with instead would be cast in his ballets. Mejia did not have a large repertory, but what he had he began losing. Finally one evening when Mejia was not given a role that he felt was his due—Symphony in C, third movement—Farrell issued an ultimatum: if Mejia didn’t dance in Symphony in C that night, they would both quit. To her utter astonishment, Balanchine took her up on it. Not only was Mejia not added to the casting sheet for Symphony in C, but Farrell, who was to have danced the second movement, was stricken from it, and as she was sitting in her dressing room preparing for the evening’s performance the wardrobe mistress, weeping, came to take her tutu away. Her resignation had been accepted. She seems not to have believed it at first. She told The New York Times that Balanchine was being bad, and that was what the problem was: “All of a sudden he’s acting unadmirably and I can’t dance for him when he’s acting that way.”10 She also went—with Mejia—to the theater one night to use a studio to practice in. They were turned away. Eventually it dawned on her. “I was a dancer without a job, and I felt as homeless as any bag lady.”